Thinking of voting for UKIP tomorrow? If you care even a jot about the rights of women, think on.
Thinking of voting for UKIP tomorrow?
If you care even a jot about the rights of women, think on.
Here are 15 reasons why women (and men who believe in equality of the sexes) should sooner drink poison than vote for the Kippers tomorrow.
1. Nigel Farage on women: “Godfrey’s [Bloom, former UKIP MEP] comment that ‘no employer with a brain in the right place would employ a young, single, free woman‘ has been proved so right. With this lunacy, that if you have children you get three months paid leave off work, or six months paid leave off work – he absolutely got it spot on.”
2. UKIP want to scrap paid maternity leave (in line with Lesotho, Swaziland, the US and Papua New Guinea).
3. UKIP want to make it legal for employers to discriminate on the basis of gender (as well as race).
4. This would also entail the scrapping of employment regulations against sexual harassment and safeguards for part time and irregular workers, the majority of which are women.
5. Nigel Farage informed City high flyers that they are “worth less” to employers if they become mothers or that motherhood is a lifestyle choice.
6. Patrick O’Flynn, MEP Candidate, also say that pregnant women in the workplace are a “disaster”.
7. UKIP’s MEPs have consistently failed to represent the interests of women. They have voted against or simply not turned up to key votes in the European Parliament on ensuring equal pay, combating violence against women and ruling out FGM, to name but a few.
8. Since the 2009 European Election UKIP’s only two female MEPs, Nikki Sinclaire and Marta Andreasen, have both left the party. Andreason said Farage “doesn’t try to involve intelligent professional women in positions of responsibility in the party. He thinks women should be in the kitchen or in the bedroom”. Nikki Sinclaire won an Employment Tribunal claim for sex discrimination against the party.
9. Roger Helmer, UKIP MEP and candidate in the Newark by-election, said, “Rape is always wrong, but not always equally culpable.”
10. Godfrey Bloom, a former UKIP MEP, was not reprimanded for hugely sexist statements such as, “[feminists are] shrill, bored, middle-class women of a certain physical genre” and, “Women, in spite of years of training in art and music – and significant leisure time in the 18th and 19th Centuries – have produced few great works”
11. Stuart Wheeler, the party’s treasurer, said that women were “absolutely nowhere” when they compete with men in sports where they are not physically disadvantaged. He said, “I would just like to challenge the idea that it is necessary to have a lot of women or a particular number on a board… Business is very, very competitive and you should take the performance of women in another competitive area, which is sport where [men] have no strength advantage.”
12. In November 2013, UKIP MEP, Stuart Agnew said (in a debate on women in the boardroom) that “Women don’t have the ambition to get to the top, something gets in the way. It’s called a baby… Those females who really want to get to the top do so”.
13. David Chalice , a senior party official in Exeter, has voiced his belief that women should stay at home and that “cash-strapped Moslems” should have multiple wives.
14. Demetri Marchessini, the party’s sixth-largest individual donor in 2013, said there was no such thing as marital rape, arguing: “If you make love on Friday and make love Sunday, you can’t say Saturday is rape.” He also claimed women should be banned from wearing trousers because they “discourage love-making”.
15. Need I go on?
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512 Responses to “15 reasons women shouldn’t vote for UKIP”
Leon Wolfeson
Keep making it up. So evil people have pensions, so evil they have JSA. You want to take that cash AND leave them unable to eat.
And of course you want me to interpret things your way, as of course you’ll sell me new pants for £99.99 or whatever new scam you’re after. As ever, your agenda is to prevent the payment of pensions by cutting off new cash into them.
Thanks for admitting your agenda to kill the elderly here, though. You’re a danger to this country and should be deported on that basis.
LB
They have no pensions. The money is spent. Gone.
I want them to have real assets for their 5K a year contributions.
There is a difference and its easy to see who is really in favour of the poor and who is ripping them off. An easy test. You just need a bit of maths.
Q. Which gives the most money for a median wage earner?
A. The state after spending all the contributions.
or
B. The FTSE if the money had been invested.
If its A, you are right. If its B, you’re just ripping off the poor, and we can tell what they have lost to people like you.
Leon Wolfeson
Keep not understanding the concept of a state pension.
And yes, let’s do the math – how many British people will you deliberately murder over the next three decades? In millions? For me, zero. For you, well? At least fifteen given your stated policy, but it could easily be higher.
That you spew garbage about how magically people would get more cash after losing employers NI (nope), which means they’d have less than zero left over after they’ve paid the insurance fees for a JSA replacement…and that’s ignoring the wage drops to keep the same take-home pay which have occurred in other countries after social tax cuts.
To you, I’m sure paying tax makes the poor “lose out”, since they’re alive and you make a lower profit as a result. Good doublethink there, from your department of Genocidal Mania Against The British.
That you are proud of how you reduce incomes via the stock market really says so much about you and why you need to be banned from trading in UK companies.
LB
I perfectly understand the state pension. It’s crap value. ON top of that the accumulated pension debts of the state are 7.1 trillion. Given they have another 1.3 tr borrowing and the total Uk wealth is only 7.3 trillion, they cannot pay.
That’s the effect that is disasterous. The state not paying.
The total insurance – none pension element of the NI system is 10%.
So how can you pay a debt that you can’t raise the money to pay. Remember its inflation linked debt. You can’t print your way out, and the poor can’t eat bank notes.
Leon Wolfeson
Yes, your demand it not be paid would indeed make it bad value.
You
keep demanding your reality be truth, as you try and get more cash for
yourself, demanding changes to UK law to smash pensions for the 99%.
As ever, you don’t understand that there will continue to be taxpayers.